11 files changed, 22 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/artist.el b/lisp/textmodes/artist.el
index 232d42efc94..0efabc2135a 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/artist.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/artist.el
@@ -3215,7 +3215,7 @@ X1, Y1.  An endpoint is a cons pair, (ENDPOINT-X . ENDPOINT-Y)."
 ;;         2|     |
 ;;         3+-----+
 ;;
-;;   We will then pop (0,0) and remove the left-most vertival line while
+;;   We will then pop (0,0) and remove the left-most vertical line while
 ;;   pushing the lower left corner (0,3) on the stack, and so on until
 ;;   the entire rectangle is vaporized.
 ;;
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el b/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
index c9b1c44eb91..8df2e81c723 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el
@@ -1451,12 +1451,12 @@ Set this variable before loading BibTeX mode."
 (defvar bibtex-field-braces-opt nil
   "Optimized value of `bibtex-field-braces-alist'.
 Created by `bibtex-field-re-init'.
-It is a an alist with elements (FIELD . REGEXP).")
+It is an alist with elements (FIELD . REGEXP).")
 
 (defvar bibtex-field-strings-opt nil
   "Optimized value of `bibtex-field-strings-alist'.
 Created by `bibtex-field-re-init'.
-It is a an alist with elements (FIELD RULE1 RULE2 ...),
+It is an alist with elements (FIELD RULE1 RULE2 ...),
 where each RULE is (REGEXP . TO-STR).")
 
 (defvar bibtex-pop-previous-search-point nil
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/conf-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/conf-mode.el
index 1127e6a5d20..40d682c3d93 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/conf-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/conf-mode.el
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ not align (only setting space according to `conf-assignment-space')."
      (2 'font-lock-constant-face nil t))
     ;; section { ... } (do this last because some assign ...{...)
     ("^[ \t]*\\([^=:\n]+?\\)[ \t\n]*{[^{}]*?$" 1 'font-lock-type-face prepend))
-  "Keywords to hilight in Conf mode.")
+  "Keywords to highlight in Conf mode.")
 
 (defvar conf-javaprop-font-lock-keywords
   '(;; var=val
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ not align (only setting space according to `conf-assignment-space')."
      (5 'font-lock-variable-name-face nil t)
      (6 'font-lock-constant-face nil t)
      (7 'font-lock-variable-name-face nil t)))
-  "Keywords to hilight in Conf Java Properties mode.")
+  "Keywords to highlight in Conf Java Properties mode.")
 
 (defvar conf-space-keywords-alist
   '(("\\`/etc/gpm/" . "key\\|name\\|foreground\\|background\\|border\\|head")
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ This variable is best set in the file local variables, or through
      (1 'font-lock-variable-name-face))
     ;; section { ... } (do this last because some assign ...{...)
     ("^[ \t]*\\([^:\n]+\\)[ \t\n]*{[^{}]*?$" 1 'font-lock-type-face prepend))
-  "Keywords to hilight in Conf Colon mode.")
+  "Keywords to highlight in Conf Colon mode.")
 
 (defvar conf-assignment-sign ?=
   "Sign used for assignments (char or string).")
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/fill.el b/lisp/textmodes/fill.el
index 52f6e5b4889..b8614b16f82 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/fill.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/fill.el
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ Point is moved to just past the fill prefix on the first line."
 
   (goto-char from)
   (if enable-multibyte-characters
-      ;; Delete unnecessay newlines surrounded by words.  The
+      ;; Delete unnecessary newlines surrounded by words.  The
       ;; character category `|' means that we can break a line at the
       ;; character.  And, char-table
       ;; `fill-nospace-between-words-table' tells how to concatenate
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el b/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
index d54debcec4c..6b4c1a2940d 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ See also `flyspell-duplicate-distance'."
 ;;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 ;;*    flyspell-mode ...                                                */
 ;;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-;;;###autoload(defvar flyspell-mode nil)
+;;;###autoload(defvar flyspell-mode nil "Non-nil if Flyspell mode is enabled.")
 ;;;###autoload
 (define-minor-mode flyspell-mode
   "Toggle on-the-fly spell checking (Flyspell mode).
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
index 704fad4fb3b..d0967d63740 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -2399,7 +2399,8 @@ Optional REFRESH will unhighlighted then highlight, using block cursor
            (setq start (1+ start))))    ; On block non-refresh, inc start.
   (let ((modified (buffer-modified-p))  ; don't allow this fn to modify buffer
         (buffer-read-only nil)          ; Allow highlighting read-only buffers.
-        (text (buffer-substring-no-properties start end)) ; Save hilight region
+        (text (buffer-substring-no-properties start end))
+                                        ; Save highlight region.
         (inhibit-quit t)                ; inhibit interrupt processing here.
         (buffer-undo-list t))           ; don't clutter the undo list.
     (goto-char end)
@@ -3977,7 +3978,7 @@ Both should not be used to define a buffer-local dictionary."
 ; LocalWords:  Francais Nederlands charset autoloaded popup nonmenu regexp num
 ; LocalWords:  AMStex hspace includeonly nocite epsfig displaymath eqnarray reg
 ; LocalWords:  minipage modeline pers dict unhighlight buf grep sync prev inc
-; LocalWords:  fn hilight oldot NB AIX msg init read's bufs pt cmd Quinlan eg
+; LocalWords:  fn oldot NB AIX msg init read's bufs pt cmd Quinlan eg
 ; LocalWords:  uuencoded unidiff sc nn VM SGML eval IspellPersDict unsplitable
 ; LocalWords:  lns XEmacs HTML casechars Multibyte
 
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/reftex-sel.el b/lisp/textmodes/reftex-sel.el
index b4e15fd2776..f4f10f1d1e0 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/reftex-sel.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/reftex-sel.el
@@ -570,13 +570,13 @@ Useful for large TOC's."
    nil t)
   (beginning-of-line))
 (defun reftex-select-next-heading (&optional arg)
-  "Move to next table of contentes line."
+  "Move to next table of contents line."
   (interactive "p")
   (end-of-line)
   (re-search-forward "^ " nil t arg)
   (beginning-of-line))
 (defun reftex-select-previous-heading (&optional arg)
-  "Move to previous table of contentes line."
+  "Move to previous table of contents line."
   (interactive "p")
   (re-search-backward "^ " nil t arg))
 (defun reftex-select-quit ()
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/rst.el b/lisp/textmodes/rst.el
index 81e92487eb0..64dffe78d50 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/rst.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/rst.el
@@ -2716,7 +2716,7 @@ general but you do not like the details."
        (rst-define-level-faces)))
 
 ;; Faces for displaying items on several levels; these definitions define
-;; different shades of grey where the lightest one (i.e. least contrasting) is
+;; different shades of gray where the lightest one (i.e. least contrasting) is
 ;; used for level 1
 (defcustom rst-level-face-max 6
   "Maximum depth of levels for which section title faces are defined."
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/table.el b/lisp/textmodes/table.el
index 08a45b6b302..65f6d98ef79 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/table.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/table.el
@@ -173,19 +173,19 @@
 ;; +-------------------------------+----------------------------------+
 ;; |`table-recognize'              |Recognize all tables in the       |
 ;; |`table-unrecognize'            |current buffer and                |
-;; |                               |activate/inactivate them.         |
+;; |                               |activate/deactivate them.         |
 ;; +-------------------------------+----------------------------------+
 ;; |`table-recognize-region'       |Recognize all the cells in a      |
-;; |`table-unrecognize-region'     |region and activate/inactivate    |
+;; |`table-unrecognize-region'     |region and activate/deactivate    |
 ;; |                               |them.                             |
 ;; +-------------------------------+----------------------------------+
 ;; |`table-recognize-table'        |Recognize all the cells in a      |
 ;; |`table-unrecognize-table'      |single table and                  |
-;; |                               |activate/inactivate them.         |
+;; |                               |activate/deactivate them.         |
 ;; +-------------------------------+----------------------------------+
 ;; |`table-recognize-cell'         |Recognize a cell.  Find a cell    |
 ;; |`table-unrecognize-cell'       |which contains the current point  |
-;; |                               |and activate/inactivate that cell.|
+;; |                               |and activate/deactivate that cell.|
 ;; +-------------------------------+----------------------------------+
 ;; |`table-forward-cell'           |Move point to the next Nth cell in|
 ;; |                               |a table.                          |
@@ -3856,7 +3856,7 @@ companion command to `table-capture' this way.
 ;;;###autoload
 (defun table-release ()
   "Convert a table into plain text by removing the frame from a table.
-Remove the frame from a table and inactivate the table.  This command
+Remove the frame from a table and deactivate the table.  This command
 converts a table into plain text without frames.  It is a companion to
 `table-capture' which does the opposite process."
   (interactive)
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
index c4892ce572c..34bd24fba3a 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/tex-mode.el
@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ Only applies the FSPEC to the args part of FORMAT."
     ;; Remove those commands whose input was considered stable for
     ;; some other command (typically if (t . "%.pdf") is inactive
     ;; then we're using pdflatex and the fact that the dvi file
-    ;; is inexistent doesn't matter).
+    ;; is nonexistent doesn't matter).
     (let ((tmp nil))
       (dolist (cmd cmds)
         (unless (member (nth 1 cmd) unchanged-in)
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el b/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el
index 094885bb0d0..a337d6f9f40 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/texinfmt.el
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ if large.  You can use `Info-split' to do this manually."
 
 ;;; Handle paragraph filling
 
-;; Keep as concatinated lists for ease of maintenance
+;; Keep as concatenated lists for ease of maintenance
 
 (defvar texinfo-no-refill-regexp
   (concat
@@ -4238,7 +4238,7 @@ the @ifeq command."
 Must be used only with -batch, and kills Emacs on completion.
 Each file will be processed even if an error occurred previously.
 For example, invoke
-  \"emacs -batch -funcall batch-texinfo-format $docs/ ~/*.texinfo\"."
+  \"emacs -batch -l texinfmt -f batch-texinfo-format $docs/ ~/*.texinfo\"."
   (if (not noninteractive)
       (error "batch-texinfo-format may only be used -batch"))
   (let ((version-control t)